Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the international collaborating partners in the Organizing for Media Innovation project drawn from Norway, Sweden, the UK, USA and Australia, who have worked with media partners in action-oriented research that explores how to foster ingenious innovations and resilient organizations in unsettling times. It explores the efforts of a Norwegian national niche newspaper in organizing, managing and integrating the two distinct and apparently discrepant temporal regimes associated with print and digital news. The book examines how innovation of new digital products and services generating new revenue streams are organized in mature newspaper organizations. It discusses how chronology is an uncertain parameter in the planning of innovation processes in media companies, given that there is no general rule for what should be ‘the first step’ in exerting an overall strategy for innovation.